Two VP Positions Added by Supervaluinneapolis, has named Steven R. Nudson executive vice president and Robert S. Sieger vice president of finance at its Sweet Life Foods subsidiary here. Both are new positions.The two appointments were made in...

CHICAGO -- IGA has made its first foray into the growing ethnic foods market with a Mexican-Hispanic line of grocery products under the IGA Celebracion label.The line of 21 Mexican grocery products includes salsa, picante sauce, tortilla chips...

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- In the pending battle over health-care reform, Wal-Mart Stores and Kmart Corp. will be organized labor's retail symbols of why employers should be required to help pay for universal health care.The United Food & Commercial...

ZAANDAM, the Netherlands -- Ahold here said last week it paid $124 million to complete the previously announced acquisition of Red Food Stores, Chattanooga, Tenn.s through its U.S. holding company Pramer. The 55-store chain had annual sales of ...

Wal-Mart remains a key benchmark of the competitive pressures retailers face today. The aggressive discounter offers low prices and careful selection on a wide range of products.art and at competing supermarkets. The survey revealed that the tooth...

Food distribution companies in many sections of the country should benefit from improvements in the economy, and from a return of modest inflation during the second half of 1994, according to securities analysts interviewed by SN.But they also...

In the 1960s when I was studying arcane subjects such as industrial engineering and operations research, we spent a great deal of time on EOQ, short for Economic Order Quantity. The primary purpose was to figure out how to minimize the cost of...

CHICAGO -- National brands and store brands will share store shelves in the future, according to a panel of speakers at the Promotion Marketing Association of America's annual Update conference here. It is only the proportions that are in question...

BRYANT, Ark. -- Foster's Foods here is making changes in its deli department to gain a competitive edge against other retailers as well as fast-food outlets.The independent is increasing space for the deli by a third, adding a second fryer to be...

ATLANTA -- Kroger Co.'s Atlanta division believes its private-label products are as good as any national brand's, and is making consumers an unusual offer to prove it.The chain has instituted a private satisfaction guarantee program, called the ...